Sunday, October 26, 2014

My dad always told me, “Aim high, always set your goals higher
than you believe you can achieve… and you will always surprise yourself.” IMHO we
have done just that.

Now this is not a PvP story… this is a PvE story. But, ya gotta do
some kinda PvE, market, industry, missions, mining or sites, to afford to PvP,
so it is part and parcel of life in EVE…

As any who visit here know I am a wormholer at heart, I found
wormholes early in my evelife and I found my place, my space and my happy and
home in this great game. Wormholes, W-space or Anoikis as
‘tis properly named for them as are learned in such matters, have 6 classes; C1,
easiest through C6 hardest. Now keep in mind the sites in a C1, the ‘easiest’
class of holes, are considered on par with some L3 missions, even some L4s… so
set your subjective hardness scale accordingly.

I have lived in a C1, C2, two C3’s and a C6. I
have flown PvP ops, run sites, mined ores, sucked gas and PI’ed in all classes
for almost 4 years now. We currently live inna C3/Lo/BlackHole system. This
means a Class 3 wormhole, with a Static Losec entry, tagged as U210, and it is
a Black Hole system so we have "weather”… IE the Black Hole in our system has
the following effects on ship systems;

Which mean fast ships go OMGDAMN fast and Missiles Rule… =]

Anyway we have, of course, the standard C3 sites… Combat sites (Cosmic
Anomalies), Data site (Radar), Relic sites (Magnetometric), Ore sites (Gravimetric)
and Gas sites (Ladar) as detailed here.
And as always, we raid any holes we connect to or scan down in Empire, from C1
thru C4. But lately, as we are all getting higher skilled and more experienced,
Sov has been crunching numbers and decided we should try the lower DPS C5
sites.

Well, we did and we did fine as I wroten about here.
We even had a new bro with us inna Hurricane and we ran the site fine. So we are actively seeking C5s with the right ‘conditions’. Preferably
an unoccupied hole, of course, but an ‘inactive’ hole works too, and, of
course, lots of sites in the sky… which is always a strong indicator of
inactive or AFK owners, and good connectivity to our home, so the haul out will
be as safe as we can make it… such as right next door or 1 or 2 inactive connecting
holes, or similarly inactiveish connecting lows… But mostly lots of sites… lots
of sites means low activity, and of course, lot of ISK to be made.

So, last night Sov found us a C5 via 1 connecting C4, J130037 a
C5/C5. Active POSes but no one home and something over 15 sites ripe for the
picking. Sov’s only worry was that in the highest DPS spawns we would possibly
need 3 logi which for a small gang like us, significantly reduced our DPS. So
we started with x2 Basi’s and 1 Scimi and for DPS we had our std x2 Ishtars…
then Sov added a new bro from a noob corp (that he had kilt and befriended in
his usual style) so once again we had a T1 Hurricane flow by a newbro join us inna
C5, LOL.

Anyhoo, we got in and started on the lower DPS sites and ran them
all. Took a break, Scooped-n-Looted all the MTUs and Noctised up all the
slavage and dropped it all safely back in our POS… very near 2 bil ISK for a
few hours of fun flying with friends… and we weren’t done yet, not bad, not bad
at all.

Then Zaxx, our guest newbro had to split and we went back and tried
the harder sites this time… sorta as a test. Sovs mathing said we could do it
with just the 2 Basis, but in one wave in particular, 5 BSes (plus cruisers and
frigs) the alpha numbers had the potential to break one of us, and if it was
one of the logi, well, things would get shall we say, ‘interesting’, from there
on for the rest. Tsra, in the Scimi, was going to try and hold off on reps
unless absolutely needed to see if the dual Basi’s can support our gang.

So we get to the spawn point and… we did fine. The thing most in
our favor for using just the dual Basi setup is the whole spawn is at range and
there are no initial webs or scrams so all ships, especially logi, were able to
keep their transversal up, which of course mitigates some of the incoming DPS.
This allowed us tank the BSes until the DPS guys took down 1 or 2 which put us
back at a safe level of manageable DPS.

Oh there were a few times when either Endy or I got hit pretty
hard… and once in an earlier site we had to put the Armor Rep drones on Zaxx, our intrepid noob Hurricane
pilot… but we were never really at a great risk of losing a ship or the fleet
as long as (1) everyone kept his head in the game and (2) we dint get hot
dropped… and we all are good at the
first and there’s fuk all we can do about the second… it’s Anoikis , no local.We did however catch sight of a Manticore on dscan in the C5 at
one point, and I am pleased as hell with our, can I say, professional response…
Everyone reacted well, the fleet was moved out and safed up back home quickly
and on the bounce, we reshipped up to PvP ships while our cloaky scouts did their
thing, put people at key positions and were able to confirm the ID and exit
hole of the intruder.

After a little research and deliberation, it was jointly agreed
with a high degree of confidence that he was probably a solo bomber pilot
looking for a bit of fun and not an advance scout for anything moar serious. So
we went back to running the rest of the sites and completed them all.

Tsra was
designated hacker and started on the hacking sites… which were according to him
a blue balled bich… and at the levels of ISK we were pulling in L&S the sites,
not worth the effort an time… and we were leaving something like 50ish million ISK
behind. I have never heard ‘50m ISK’ described as ‘not worth this effort’… but
it really wasn’t.

Last I remember I was sittin at 50km cloaked inna Falcon on overwatch on
Tsra while his OCD forced him to try and finish what he started… then I woke up
to Sov saying “Tur, go to bed.” Which I promptly and happily did…

Woke this morn and out of curiosity, and with my OCD whispering “You
dint do PI last night…” in my ear I logged on and… well, looks like my next 30
days in EVE are paid for… once I get out to hisec and buy that PLEX I can now
afford… =]Fly Wreckless and see you in the Sky =/|)=

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

I did it right last night. I did everything right, and I knew it, I
felt it.

You know that feeling, like when you are in the groove playing
pool and you ‘see’ the next 3 shots as you shoot, or on the 400 yard line and
you know exactly where your shot will strike as you squeeze the trigger, or
that perfect sound and feel in the bat when you KNOW, in your bones, as the bat
swings, that it’s going to be perfect… and it is.

The evening started as it usually does… the usual suspects were on
and in TS. We had a connection to a C6 that had just had a successful POS bash
go down, and these are not guys we want taking too close a notice of us… I
mean, they just lost a POS… roflstomping ANYONE would feel good after that you
know? So we decided to risk rolling the hole to, yes, risk adversely ‘get away’
from them. You see in Anoikis if you dunt like yer neighbors, you can change
them. =]

Anyhoo, thankfully we rolled the hole without incident and got
down to the boring yet mind numbing business of POCO bashing. We have 2 POCO’s
in th hole, not ours, which recently started taxing us when they hadn’t afore.
So die they must… and NOW. Anyway we went a bashing and put them both into
reinforced. Later back at the POS I was puttering with PI when Sov told me,
“Tur, get in a DPS ship and get to the new static, now.” He had some potential
fun for us in the new lowsec. Some guys running sites in Tengus… hmmm, what to
wear, what to wear…

I jumped into my trusty armor 1600plate/buffer/short point/cap boosted
Maller and warped to the static. Sov got tackle on one of the Tengus and called
me and NC1M in. Sov was in his Ishtar and NC1M was in a Geddon. I warped to,
landed, burned and got point [06:03:31] on my primary, the Tengu of OleIvar and
started my Lazors on ‘im… then Sov ordered me to switch point to kraken1111
jensen’s Tengu, I manually flew to switch point while keeping my DPS on
OleIvars. As I worked to managed range and transversal to hold point, losing and
regaining it a few times, and keep in Lazor range, I got primaried and started
to go into armor… 90%, 80%, 70%... I advised and Sov said to align and warp out
if needed and possible… I was not
pointed so I aligned and then… [06:05:33] BOOM.

I immediately broke alignment, turned, burned, maintained point on
kraken1111 jensen’s Tengu and put my DPS on him. After that first Tengu had
gone down I felt I was not going to break unless we got hot dropped… then… [06:05:58]
BOOM second Tengu gone. Now we turned all our attention on kraken111 jensen’s
Tengu and in very short order… [06:06:24] BOOM… 3 Tengus
down, no losses.

An Osprey had landed towards the end of the fight and Sov ordered
me to break off and see if I could catch and point it… of course no. I was too
far out and he had time to make good his exit-stage-left… We looted the field
and warped back to the hole… It was THEN that the shakes started in earnest!!!!

OMG! OMG! O M G !!! I did
it right! I kept my head in the game, I was doing all the defense and cap and fight
& flight management stuff you are supposed to do. I was keeping track of
who was on the field, where they were, ranges and transversals and speed… and I
was thinking and making decisions. To say I was stoked when I got back to the
hole is putting it very very mildly indeed! Like Leathal said, it was a good
night to be in H.E.L.P.e.R.

Add to that a little ISK was also to be made… the Faction drops
were;

Pithum A-Type EM Ward Amplifier,

Caldari Navy Large Shield Extender,

Caldari Navy Heavy Assault Missile Launcher and a,

Gistum C-Type 10MN Afterburner…

Which adds up to approx 450,000,000.00 ISK… nice! And to top it
off, shortly after Sov caught an Astero
solo. The ‘stero pilot was a noob and so Sov convo’ed him, and we all pulled up
a chair and talked space ships for a while…

Monday, October 20, 2014

Yup, a Hurricane inna C5… and the 3 month old player flying it is
our newbro, Vlad. And he is a true noobie… shiny new, mums milk on his lips
new, just a nubbins and EVERYTHING is like OMG to him new. Vlad joined us just
last week. He is a 07/26/14 char and a REAL New Player in EVE, not some older
player’s alt.

We brought him into our C3 and started teaching him the Tao of Holes,
scanning, how to live by the cloak and how to run C3 Sleepers and how to raid
C4’s sites in Fleet w/ logi. But last night, Sov decided we were ready and took
us into a C5… and Vlad was in his top ship, a T1 Hurricane. And he lived to
tell the tale and to wonder at the ISK in his wallet. Just a week or so ago he was thrilled to make
like 1 or 2 mil ISK… and now, in an hour give or take, he had made several
hundred million ISK… and DAMN near lost his ship. Welcome to EVE. =]

Flying with
Vlad really takes me back to my noobhood. I had a really good new player
experience in EVE, I have told of it afore. But I realized something last
night… EVE is, for many, an orphanage. It wasn’t for me, and now, not for Vlad…
but for many, CCP Rise’s 50/40% who leave after subbing for 1 month… EVE is an Orphanage
and a damn rough one, Fagin and the Artful Dodger would be right at home here.

By this I
mean that so many who come to EVE do so without people already ingame. One of
the strengths of the Goons et al is that they are not orphans… they come to the
game already en famille as twere… already part of a group. I too came to the
game not as an orphan, but with actual family ingame, my sons had been playing almost
a year and even when I was out there all on my own, I knew I really wasn’t. I
knew they were there for me if needed. And this colors my perceptions and
experiences. While my noobhood was a wonderful time for me, maybe it would not
have been quite so if I hadn’t had them there in the background… I just don’t
know.

Vlad met Sov
out one day just boofing about learning the game. He was trying out scanning
down :stuff: and Sov was scanning as usual and Sov, and well, Sov was Sov…
Patient, interested, casually easy to talk to, extremely knowledgeable about a
vast array of game mechanics and gameplay, and always ready to help and teach
without making a new bro feel looked down on at all.

So I had logged on and was facedown in PI screens as usual (you
have to tend to your PI daily or it just goes to straight to hell) when Sov
said, “Sounds like you need some.... c5 sites” my reply was “LOL sure I do...
last night was fun...” “Wait... C5??” He didn’t respond so I settled back down
and finished up PI thinking it was just a troll. We live inna C3, and we feel
quite confident in running anything C1 to C4… but we are not a big group and C5
and 6 sites are the next step up and are significantly harder than C1 thru 4
sites. Then Sov brings up running some sites again and we fleet up and head out
and it’s then that I find out he was serious. We transit the lowsec and jump into
a C5 wormhole Sov has found. Oh… shit.

Please understand, we (my sons, Mabrick, Mikey and I in our home corp,
HBHI) used to live inna C6 when we were in SYJ Alliance (at the time a 500 man wormhole
Alliance) with all the Dreads, Caps and faction fit T3’s one could possibly
need to not only run the C6 sites but to force and run the Escalations (scroll
down to Sleeper Site Escalations and Sleeper Capitol Escalations)
with some impunity.

EVE Survival has this to say ‘bout Escalations, which I feel sums
it up quite nicely…

“Alice warps her Thanatos into an
anomaly, which causes 6 Sleeper Guardian battleships to spawn. Bob then warps
his Thanatos into the same anomaly, which causes another 8 Sleeper Guardian
battleships to spawn. Alice then starts yelling at Bob as the 14 Sleeper
Guardians and the rest of the anomaly NPCs reduce their capitals to wrecks over
the next two minutes.”

Sooo… let’s see that’s 9 Frigs, 7 Cruisers & 4 BSes in just the
FIRST wave PLUS the escalations for a total of 18 Sleeper Battleships… Eighteen…
This is the Anoikis version of CONCORDOKKEN… SLEEPERDOKKEN.

Hell, even the standard un-escalated C5 and 6 sites are still a blue
balled bich… for example, in the C6 Core Citadel site
the initial group is 9 Frigs, 7 Cruisers & 4 BSes, second wave is 8 Frigs,
5 BSes, third wave is 6 Frigs & 6 BSes… add to this if you warp in Capitols,
Carriers ect., the Sleepers respond with reinforcements and you get… Escalation
1, 6 BSes dealing out 4164 DPS and … Escalation 2, 8 BSes at 5552 DPS… yup, five
THOUSAND five hundred and fifty two DPS…
ouch.

Now C5s are not C6s… but they are still a damn unhealthy step up
from the C3 sites in our home hole and the C4 sites we often raid. For instance…
in the C5 Core
Garrison site, initial group is 3 sentries, 5 Frigs & 5 Cruisers for
802 DPS, second wave is 6 Frigs & 3 BSes putting out 1542 DPS and wave
three is 8 Cruisers & 3 BSes at a painful 1920 DPS and the last
reinforcement wave is 3 Frigs, 2 Cruisers & 2 BSes at 1402 DPS… This is
without forcing the escalations as we have no Capitols.

So our fleet is, 1 Nighthawk running links, a Gila, 2 Ishtars, and
a Hurricane for DPS and myself and Endy in 2 Basilisks as Logi. Now I’m not
nearly as good with the ‘numbers’, EHP, Resists, Active shield HP, etc., etc.
as Sov is… but I can tell you that running Logi inna C5 for a 7 man fleet, even
in two cap chained T2 Basilisks with L5 Logi pilots, is really pushing the safety
margin a bit especially with a T1 BC on the field.

The Gila and Nighthawk were very capable of tanking standard agro
levels, but on getting focus fire before we can burn down a BS or 2 from a new
spawned wave, well, even they would occasionally call for cap or even shield
reps… the Ishtars were basically OK as long both Endy and I kept at least one repper
always on them. We also kept one repper on each other, (Logi is VITAL bro… if
everyone else dies… we at least must live to warp away and tell the tale!!!)
and we both kept a repper (often 2) on Vlad… and more than once we both had to
put all 4 (from both ships) on him to keep him alive… and he still went deep
into armor once. But I carry 2 Med Armor Droans so while it took some time, I
was able to buff him back up to 100% across the board between sites. I carry the
Armor Droans to fix burnt up attack droans… =]

So we ran the sites and never once saw a sign of anything in the
sky… and never saw a POS or a Force Field either… an uninhabited C5 full of
that good old red gold… I know there are them out there
who feel Anoikis should have a greater population density… that more people
living in holes is better for us all… I say nope. Anoikis is the Wild West… and
I like just that way.

I like it when we find C3s and 4s and 5’s that are echoey empty
holes with only the burned out remains of the settlers who came before, and
didn’t make it… The sites spawn and spawn and spawn until the sky is bleeding full
of ISK just waiting to be harvested. You see, the more people living full time IN
holes, the more people you face who are holesmart… who have POSes up, who know
how to defend and how to fight Anoikis style…

No, I prefer chains of ISK rich emptiness… the more daytrippers
and new (to holes) players we get poking around looking for quick easy riches (cause
they heard we all moved out), the more kills we have opportunities for, instead
of the std;

“Oh by the way, can someone drop a bubble or two on this hole, or
are we gonna try and roll it?” =\

No thanx… give me a nice fat gang of PvE fit Hiseccers who (1) don’t
have a POS to warp to and who (b) THINK they know how to PvP in holes… ohhh yea!

One other small thing we all noticed that was pretty cool… it
seems the Sleepers now actually remote rep. They are “supposed” to have been
doing that all along, but CCP Fozzie fessed
up and said that NPC repping has never really worked so they recently fixed
it. So now you can actually SEE the remote reps landing and which rats are getting
the love… schweet! Except NOT!!! Like they weren’t hard enough to kill afore
dammnit! LOL!

Fly Wreckless and see you in the Sky =/|)=

PS - Sov informed me tonight that I had missed only one salient point... He did run into Vlad one night when Vlad was learning about scanning... but what I dint know was Vlad scanned our static down and jumped in and Sov kilt him.

THEN Sov convo'ed Vlad and the Gunboat Recruitment Program went into full swing... =]

Friday, October 17, 2014

Last night we went hunting in our (then) current static lowsec in Tirbam
(0.2) in Tash-Murkon. Sov was scouting and found 2 Retrievers placidly mining a
belt… There was a few minutes of the possibility of :Orca:, but that never transpired
and we had a fleetmate who could not stay long so… a hunting we did go.

Sov, our indomitable FC was inna Cheetah, Tsra was inna Prophecy,
Endy inna Britux, NC1M inna Tengu and I was in my short point/sebo/missile Maladiction.
Once we were all on the hole and after waiting a little bit more to see if
anything better transpired, Sov decided we’d just take the targets that
presented themselves. He had made a Close-In BM and as I was inna fast lock
Inty he called me in first,

“Tur, jump, warp to the Close-In BM and get point on Herb
Gunnison, Retriever… your target is ‘HER’.”
he ordered in that calm cool James T. style of his…

“Roger, jump, warp, get point on Retriever ‘HER’.” I jumped and warped as
quickly as I could…

I landed just outside of the 10km short points range, turned, burned
and targeted, got point called it and held point orbiting at 7k. Then I went
ahead and started the missiles on ’im… just, you know, ‘cause… :missiles: =]The moment I called point Sov called the rest of our gang in. They
landed and point was called on Feng Yotosashi, then back up point on Herb… and as the DPS started
landing, backup point on Feng was called… we had them cold…[Caveat: Anyone who has read my stuff knows I do not
consider myself a ganker and I don’t like players whose primary motivation is ‘tears’
or players who are noob greifers, scammers and suchlike… at the same time please
understand I am a wormholer and this was lowsec. All these guys had to do was
warp off. That’s it. Dock up and we would have ignored them, not might have,
would have. But they didn’t and, well… we decide to go for it in the hope they
had continued mining because they had friends nearby who might or would jump
in and give us a fight. The point of attacking the Retrievers was the hope of
getting a better fight… not to gank miners… they were just the bait… ok? ok. On
with the story and the weird reason why they actually didn’t warp off…]Then, one of the stranger things that has happened to me out of a
mass of very strange things that has happen to me in EVE… we see this in local…Feng Yotosashi > hey guys we are not kos

Feng Yotosashi > =/KOS?? Ohhhhh… What? Oh, Kill On Sight… ahh, I
see… wait, what?? Are we in Provi?? Uh… nope… we are definitely in Tirbam, a
0.2 lowsec system... I actually had to dubble check. Yup, Tirbam, 0.2, lowsec… OK…
that’s weird.Then, while I am going through the above, and
as these things go… !BOOM!

“Point the pod, point the pod.” Sov calls, I get lock, set and call point… Sov tells us to hold fire on the pod, annnnd… Endy
pops the pod. Awww… he “says”
he tried to stop the firing cycle… and that he ‘only’ fired once, “I swear.”…
Uh huh. Pod thief. =]

I then added my point and missiles to the second
quickly dying Retriever and…

[06:29:19] (notify) Caldari Navy Scourge
Light Missile deactivates as the item
it was targeted at is no longer present.

Now during all of this our comms chatter was…
well, we were first spamming scan and watching local hoping for a spike… and
also trying to figure out just whatinthehell Feng and Herb were talking about… (logs lightly edited for spelling etc.)

Bruce Wangchow > well you guys are not
kos to cva, I even set you to neutralBruce Wangchow > that's why I was not
worried mining there, what happened?Bruce Wangchow > why did you attack us?

WhatTheFuk??

Tsra > ...Tsra > do you know where you are?Sovereign Meari > I think he does.﻿Bruce Wangchow > yes I doSovereign Meari > I think he realizes
he's in lowsec.Tsra > ok phew﻿Bruce Wangchow > well, people who are
not kos don’t attack each other here, it's the first time I see this
happening

﻿Bruce Wangchow > but we have lots of cva
not kos corps around, and they just won’t attack each other

﻿TurAmarth ElRandir > well... we aren't
them... so... KOS allatime!!

﻿Bruce Wangchow > hm well ok then I guess, but that was a
bummer =[

﻿Bruce Wangchow > thought you guys were
cool

﻿

Now that
cuts… I am cool, just ask my bros. =\

Tsra > nope

﻿Sovereign Meari > er

﻿Tsra > we’re nerds

﻿TurAmarth ElRandir > this is just
weird...

﻿Sovereign Meari > well, I thought you
guys were cool too

﻿Bruce Wangchow > me too =/

﻿Endymi Typhirr > why can't we be cool
and shewt stuff? D:

﻿Endymi Typhirr > :'(

﻿Sovereign Meari > I thought you'd fight
back

﻿Tsra > but like those mean jock nerds

﻿Tsra > who beat up lesser nerds

﻿Sovereign Meari > bring 3-5 bc's from
around system and jump us when we jumped you

﻿Bruce Wangchow > haha yeah

﻿Endymi Typhirr > I'm gonna admit I
didn't intend to kill the pod…

We were by now back on the hole and
jumped back home. We did come back a bit later and run a site… but that was
that for the night.

We checked and neither Feng nor
Bruce are in CVA either…

Feng is the CEO of Blackdrill
Inc. [BLKDRL] corp, no Alliance, and Bruce is a member of same corp. BLKDRL is
a 06/14 corp and both toons are new, Feng, 04/14 and Bruce 05/14… Feng does not
have a bio, but Bruce does… this;

I love exploration… just not in Empire space is all. You see grew
up and I live in a space where 'exploration' really did used to be an absolute
daily necessity of life. I say used-to-be ‘cause CCP in their infinitely (un?)wiseish
ways felt it was for the Good ofTh'Game to remove almost ALL o’ the Mystery of Space
by forcing on us… umm, I mean gifting us with… the Discovery Scanner. IE very
little is left that one has to actually work to FIND in space… All the Sekret and Misstearious
Places out in the black now show up with Huge Flashing Multicolored Signs for all to see… and in most cases, warp directly to… what crap… =\

Anyhoo… Scanning used to be necessary for all kinds of :stuff:.
Locating the daily holes, your static and all of the up to 5 random holes that can spawn
in any Anoikis system… and pinpointing your Combat sites, Ore sites, Gas Sites… ALL of them
used to need to be meticulously scanned down to 100%, bookmarked and then, oh
the horror, manually copied as physical ‘items’ to your cargo bay then dropped
inna can or a POS mod in order to be shared with yer corpmates via even moar
manual copying then re-deposited in cans or POS mods for the next guy… ah
the good ol days huh? =]

I know I know, the Discovery Scanner 'supposedly' made it easier for
noobs to ‘see’ what all the fuss was about over Exploration… cause if you dunt
know it could out there, how would you know to go look for it Hmm? Uh… I thought that was what the
tutorials were for… to TEACH that there’s good stuff 'hidden' out there that you really should learn how to SEARCH for… I mean what a world it would be IRL if every deposit
of gold or silver or OIL in the earth had had a big ol holographic burning bush of a SIGN rotating over it…
just how fast would ALL of it been dug up? EONS ago?

OK rant over… for now.

Anyhoo, so I never really got into Exploration in Empire Space because
of the aforesaid moving into Anoikis early in my Evelife and washed my hands of
the unwashed masses who inhabit the crowed noisy spaces outside of our mostly
quiet, often hellishly dangerous, but always highly lucrative wormhole star systems…
I did all my scanning there, and still do…

Some nice stuff here too, one thing I really really like… all of the Agents
have been taken out back and given a stern talking to about their talkative
habits… IE they are much less chatty now… good.And stuff like lowering the
amount of the most common (lowest value it is assumed) drops in sites in Hisec.
The frequency of Faction POS BP and ‘Optimized’ items drops is increased and
Faction Materials and Industrial Goods drops have been added… Hmm? Wait, what? New
Drops have been added you say? What New Drops? Oh you mean these New Drops… here;

(click to embiggen)

Now, being the lets-get-down-to-brass-nanoribbins kinda guy I am I
said to myself, “Self, I wonder what these New Drops are worth… you know, ISKwise.”
So, I googled on over to EVE Central and did a quick chart, yes, the Excel
Spreadsheet you see above (go figure).

So, what I determined was (1) that the Blood Raiders are the
faction to scan for because, (2) three of the highest ISK value items are Blood
Red… and even at a quick sell of potentially 66m/15m/13m ISK for these items it
might just really worth the effort and time… remember this is in 1.0 to 0.5
space FFS!

Now add to this that CCP RedDawn says…“What this means is that the
percentage chance of finding some lovely shimmery-like-things will be slightly
higher.Moreover, the volume decrease of the most
commonly dropped items means that you’ll be making fewer return trips to
offload your wares.”

And, most intriguing of all for me...“We’ve also added all of the Data
and Relic exploration sites found in Null Security space to Wormhole Class 1, 2
and 3 systems.”

So… beside the increased scanning I am sure we are going to be
doing in any connecting C1,C2 & C3s we find… I might, I just might actually
INTENTIONALLY spend some time in Hisec after Nov 4th, or at least
pop out occasionally and if I perhaps to find myself in Blood Space, I just
might pop a probe or 8… Yup, I just might at that. =]

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

I rarely ever comment … hell I rarely ever READ anything on The
Mittani much less comment on the blatant Null-Coalitions-are GOOD-for-You-and-Are-the-End-Game-of-EVE-centric
writing there... I am not a fan of the Coalitions or Goonswarm or even das
mittens himself himself as anyone who reads me knows or even of Nullsuck as I calls
it…

Actually, I should not say that I hate nullsec… ‘cause that is not
true, I hate the nullsec that the CFC and other coalitions have created. I
actually would love to fly the skies of a free and interesting for all nullsec…
but that is not what we have today… no, we have the Big Blue Doughnut. A name
so indicative of the actual conditions there that nullseccers themselves use
it.

Anyhoo, I do peruse the site fom time to time
and I was reading The Jump
Changes: Average Time To Fun, by FearlessLittleToaster, a bit of a rantfest
against the Jump Drive Changes coming in Phoebe. And I was stirred to add my .2
ISK when this happened…

I have been blocked by The Mittani. I am shocked. Not that they
can do it, a blog is not a Journalistic New Source no matter what lies they
tell you… it’s supposed to be a personal web log… though The Mittani site does
act and try to look like a Respectable Upstanding News Magazine more than just a
mouthpiece blog for mittens. I find it interesting when, in the “About” on The Mittani ‘they’ say…

“We hope to provide as balanced a
view as possible, so that those on all sides of Eve’s conflicts can come here
for information, even if they sometimes disagree with the analysis of one
writer or another.”

Except when we ‘really’ disagree with you, then we don’t allow you
to talk at our table. Once you
censor anyone’s voice, well, so much for any pretenses about ‘Balance’.

Also, I found this of note…“…there are places you can go to
find out about Eve. But the ones with
intelligent commentary tend to be forums, and those tend to be daunting for the
non-member…”

The forums FFS?! Makes you wonder a bit about the quality and
actual intelligence of the unnamed ‘they’ who wrote that… I mean ANYONE who has
spent five minutes in the forums knows they are 80% trolls, 15% wannabe trolls
with mebbe 5% actually worth reading… IE good luck.

No it’s not that they could block me (itsa blog), or even that they would block me (the light
of open discussion oft discloses that which lurks in the dark places)...
it’s that someone, someone at The Mittani itself itself, took enough umbrage at
my writing to actually do so.

Now I know I am not the only one, but it sorta feels
good knowing they noticed… you know? But…
well, oh looky here, I seem to have my own blog… so my comments got posted
anyway… =P

Always remember, “If they’re
shooting at you, you must be doing something right.”

Them as what follow me...

Graphiti...

Round and round we go...

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